Year in Review
Just a Sample of What We Accomplished in 2023
Last year, The Markup’s investigations spurred Congress, prompted companies to stop sending sensitive information to Facebook, and got cited in multiple new class action lawsuits
Joel Eastwood
Visualizations Engineer
Joel Eastwood is a visualizations engineer who transforms data into compelling graphics and interactive websites.
Before joining The Markup, Joel was a graphics editor with The Wall Street Journal’s investigations team and, before that, a data journalist at the Toronto Star.
Joel’s graphics were part of the Journal’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. His work has also contributed to two Pulitzer Prize finalists, a Worth Bingham Prize entry, a Gerald Loeb finalist, a Data Visualization of the Year award, and eight awards from the Society for News Design.
The Markup's Year in Illustration: 2023
Some of our most compelling illustrations that we published this year
Year in Review
The Stories that Made Us Jealous in 2023
A look at 10 articles we wish we had published this year
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What It’s Like Living With Limited Access to Internet in the Black Rural South
Across the rural South, about 38% of Black households don’t have home internet, a higher percentage than White people in the same region and the national average
Pixel Hunt
Facebook Watches Teens Online As They Prep for College
An investigation by The Markup found Meta’s pixel tracking students from kindergarten to college
Hello World
‘Unmasking AI’ and the Fight for Algorithmic Justice
A conversation with Dr. Joy Buolamwini
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FCC Approves Rules to Prevent ‘Digital Discrimination’
Congress tasked the FCC with closing the digital divide. Here’s what the agency’s doing
News
The Problems Biden’s AI Order Must Address
The Markup gives a section-by-section breakdown of the summarized executive order on artificial intelligence
Hello World
Face Scanning and the Freedom to "Be Stupid In Public": A Conversation with Kashmir Hill
The longtime privacy journalist on how investigating Clearview AI helped her appreciate facial recognition—and envision a chaotic future
News
Twitter Is Throttling Patreon Links, Creators Say It Undermines Their Livelihood
Markup readers helped uncover the link delays, which also affect WhatsApp and Messenger
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